Wolfe, Cary
What is Posthumanism? (Posthumanities)
- ISBN 13:
- 9780816666157
- author:
- Wolfe, Cary
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2009
- Pages:
- 400
- Dimensions:
- 13.97 x 3.05 x 21.59 centimetres
- Genre:
- History of Western philosophy
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Cary Wolfe's What Is Posthumanism? explores the possibilities and implications of thinking beyond traditional humanist boundaries. By examining bioethics, cognitive science, animal ethics, gender, and disability, Wolfe develops a theoretical approach that responds to our changing understanding of ourselves and the world. Through close readings of diverse works such as Temple Grandin's writings, Wallace Stevens's poetry, Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark, the architecture of Diller+Scofidio, and David Byrne and Brian Eno's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Wolfe demonstrates how a posthumanist sensibility can transform art and culture. This book offers a rigorous and vibrant philosophical perspective on ethics, justice, language, trans-species communication, social systems, and intellectual aspirations. Wolfe carefully distinguishes posthumanism from transhumanism, clarifying the distinction between these two concepts in order to develop a nuanced understanding of what it means to think beyond humanist divisions.
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